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You never use or benefit from any web apps that take advantage of javascript?
by artursapek 9y ago
You never use or benefit from any web apps that take advantage of javascript?
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI almost never use web apps that couldn't be done without JavaScript.
- kazinator 9y agoI'm with you. A UI markup language could define forms that are "desktop-like" without involving a Turing complete language. The paradigm of the HTML form with controls and a submit action has not been developed to its full potential, because it was basically derailed by JS. It could have a lot more widgets, and there could be some standard way they exchange and validate data, without a full-blown client-side programming language. For instance, say you want the user to pick a date. There could be a standard widget in HTML for doing that that could be dropped into a form, and it could be configured to communicate its value bi-directionally with some other field. (Perhaps like cells in a spreadsheet or that sort of reactive thing.) A rich set of standard widgets with flexible styling and layout, communicating the content of the data model to and from the server. Something like that.